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  3. Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothin

Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothin

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问题     Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to  "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s【C1】________in a way. All over the world, birthrates tend to fall a-long with economic development
    The thing about an increasingly childless economy is that it has major implications for【C2】________. It is confirmed by a new data from a Gallup survey【C3】________on the average daily spending of families. Even after you control for income, age, education, and【C4】________status, families with young kids spend more every day.
    What are parents spending on? Not just books, toys, and games. The Department of Agriculture【C5】________surveys the many ways we spend on our kids, to the tune of about $14,000 a year. The【C6】________majority of money goes to the【C7】________: housing, food, transportation, and education. Housing is kind of funny, because young children tend not to have their housing units,【C8】________the parents are extremely well-off and the children are terribly misbehaved. The survey estimates the housing portion of spending by trying to【C9】________a few factors: the cost of an extra bedroom, the cost of moving into safer【C10】________with better schools, and the cost of buying homes with larger yards.
    It is【C11】________that on economic growth, some of the most discussed variables on editorial pages and cable news are policy choices like tax rates or international events. But buried【C12】________these headlines is the glacier of demographics, the steady and unyielding force of human numbers to【C13】________the economy. The【C14】________in U.S. birthrates in recent years has almost certainly had a negative effect on consumer spending (and【C15】________, lower birthrates are probably an outcome of the recession). In particular, childless couples don’t need space for more kids so they’re less【C16】________to buy homes in the suburbs,【C17】________demand for housing that badly needs to sell more homes. In other words,【C18】________families and less household formation【C19】________the U.S. economy of housing and transportation spending, which has historically accounted for half of family【C20】________.
【C1】
选项 A、interesting
B、natural
C、beneficial
D、doubtful
答案B
解析 空格前一句说there’s nothing wrong with this，空格后提及全球出生率也呈下降的趋势。这表明，出生率的下降是理所当然的。B项natural“正常的；自然的”正确。A项interesting“有趣的”，上下文没有相关的语义提示出生率下降是有趣的。C项beneficial“有帮助的”。在此表明出生率下降能带来益处，而本文通篇都在说出生率下降对经济有负面影响。D项doubtful“使人生疑的”与全球范围内的实际情况矛盾。
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